The Biological Clock
Reconciling Careers and Motherhood in the 1980s
McKaughan
1987
Well this is a book that would have caught my eye back in the day. As a person who waffled about having kids, this book would have been like a match to gasoline in my stress-filled late 20s. Back then mothers over the age of 30 were pretty much considered “high risk” or too old. At least in my mind, I had to have a baby before I turned 30. (I made it by 2 months.)
This was a regular discussion topic among my age group. It also led to the discussion that child care was just this side of evil or damaging to your baby. All the fears are here in this book. It is also incredibly ignorant that maternity leave wasn’t really a thing for most wage earners. Paid maternity leave was for the ultra rich, if they negotiated for it in their high powered jobs. Bottom line, all 300 pages plus of this book really only applied to about 1 percent of working women.
Mary
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